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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2000, 12:32 AM CDT for La Salle County, McMullen County, Webb County, Texas. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 2000, 12:32 AM CDT (05:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2000, 1:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties La Salle County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Webb County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 170 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1208 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 805 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Corpus Christi, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 1, 9:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 1, 9:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 910 PM CDT MON MAY 1 2000 FEW ISOLATED CELLS OVER THE SOUTH. CELL S OF KCOT IS PULSING...CELL IN KBRO CWFA IS MORE IMPRESSIVE...WHERE STRONGEST CONVERGENCE AND INSTABILITY IS. MAIN CONCERN ARE CELLS/LINE OF STORMS IN HILL COUNTRY. WITH SOUNDING WINDS SHOWING SE/E WINDS FIRST 3K FEET...LINE WILL LIKELY COME ON DOWN LATER TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY OVER KVCT AREA. MAIN QUESTION IS WHETHER THEY WILL BECOME SEVERE. RIGHT NOW THINGS ARE MARGINAL. GENERALLY...WILL LEAVE THE CURRENT FORECAST GOING FOR NOW...AND MAKE NO CHANGES AT THIS TIME. FORECAST MAY BE UPDATED LATER FOR THE MENTION OF SVR ONCE CONFIDENCE IS MORE ESTABLISHED. ONLY CHANGE TO MARINE IS TO INCLUDE NORTHERN BAYS WITH SCA WITH A 20 KT FORECAST. .CRP...SCA GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275. 86/GW
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 1, 9:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
TXZ229>234-239>247-021100- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 942 PM CDT MON MAY 1 2000 ...HEAVY RAINFALL EXPECTED ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS OVERNIGHT... ...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IS MONITORING A POTENT UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM...MOVING ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...WHICH WILL INCREASE THE POTENTIAL FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ALREADY DEVELOPED OVER THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY MONDAY EVENING. THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO PROPAGATE SOUTHWARD OVERNIGHT AND EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. ALSO...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WHICH DEVELOPED OVER DEEP SOUTH TEXAS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST TOWARD THE AREA. ALTHOUGH THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE HEAVY RAIN...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LIMITS WITH STRONG WINDS AND HAIL. RAINFALL TOTALS RANGING BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES ARE EXPECTED OVER MUCH OF THE AREA. WIDESPREAD FLOODING IS NOT ANTICIPATED...HOWEVER TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS FROM THUNDERSTORMS WILL RESULT IN PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS...AS WELL AS RISES ON AREA RIVERS...STREAMS AND CREEKS. AS THE DISTURBANCE LIFTS OUT OF THE AREA TUESDAY AFTERNOON...THE POTENTIAL FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL DECREASE. RESIDENTS ARE URGED TO MONITOR THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. STAY TUNED TO YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. GW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 12:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells, Live Oak | 73 min |
| May 2, 12:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | McMullen | 88 min |
| May 2, 1:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells | 62 min |
| May 2, 7:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells | 66 min |
| May 2, 12:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells, Kleberg | 118 min |
| May 2, 2:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells, Kleberg | 2 hr |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.